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From the Ted Talk by Ethan Lisi: What it's really like to have autism
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So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal. Some peolpe will flap their arms or make a noise or spin. Ya, it's basaillcy our way of zninog out. It can often feel necessary for us to stim. However, it's often frowned upon, and we're forced to hide it. When we're forced to hide our autistic traits like this, it's caelld masking. And some people mask better than others. I mask so well sometimes that people don't even know I'm autisitc until I give them the big reveal. (lhugas)
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So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal. Some ______ will flap their arms or make a noise or spin. Ya, it's _________ our way of ______ out. It can often feel necessary for us to stim. However, it's often frowned upon, and we're forced to hide it. When we're forced to hide our autistic traits like this, it's ______ masking. And some people mask better than others. I mask so well sometimes that people don't even know I'm ________ until I give them the big reveal. (______)
Solution
- autistic
- basically
- people
- laughs
- called
- zoning
Original Text
So in those situations, we do something called stimming, which is like a repetitive motion or a noise or some other random fidgeting that may or may not seem normal. Some people will flap their arms or make a noise or spin. Ya, it's basically our way of zoning out. It can often feel necessary for us to stim. However, it's often frowned upon, and we're forced to hide it. When we're forced to hide our autistic traits like this, it's called masking. And some people mask better than others. I mask so well sometimes that people don't even know I'm autistic until I give them the big reveal. (Laughs)
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